Who Do You Think You Are? Evolving Ethical Meaning Making. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McWilliams, Spencer A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of constructivist psychology. Volume 31:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 376
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Personal construct theory -- Periodicals; Constructivism (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 150.1985
• DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2017.1384337
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-0537

Abstract

Abstract : People must develop ways to determine and manage acceptable and unacceptable behaviors within their communities, although not all communities create the same ethical systems. Understanding differences in ethical systems, including between constructivists and their critics, might benefit from considering constructive-developmental theory, which views ethics as related to evolving individual self-identities in a context of accompanying cultural evolution. By considering that people's ethical frameworks evolve over the life span and that current society consists of people at various levels within that evolutionary process, we may arrive at a better understanding of ethical differences and include a wider range of perspectives in our discourse.